MobiTV, HowardForums Clear the Air

Companies were at odds over link to free MobiTV content.

EMERYVILLE, Calif.
- The air apparently is clear between mobile content delivery platform MobiTV and mobile phone community resource HowardForums, after an Internet service
provider battle and cease-and-desist litigation.

The mobile streaming TV company in charge of Sprint's cell-phone TV service was
irate about a HowardForums discussion in which posters criticized the
company's security for not being able to preventing users from bypassing
carrier subscriptions and viewing MobiTV content free of charge.

"Howard,
great catching up today," Scanlan wrote in a letter to Chui. "Again, we're big
fans of the site, and our intention was never to bring your entire site down or
to censor the Internet, like we're being accused of. The irony is that our
companies are quite different, and as one of the leaders in new media, we
couldn't be more supportive of the rights of sites like yours. Please know that
our first priority is always to fix any security issues with our system, and
we're doing that.

"Additionally,
we also have a responsibility to our content and carrier partners to reduce the
impact of any breaches to the system once they occur, and that was really the
basis for the correspondence you had with our legal team. I look forward to
continuing to find interesting and vibrant insights from HowardForums."